The collected works of Darkstar

deBug wrote:
OK, I have completed the download of the tech pubs from Diego.
He also provided me with some sites that he mirrored five years ago.
There is still some more stuff that I will download from him whenever he can find some more time.

So thank you so much Diego!


It is all available at the Swedish Nekoware Mirror http://se.mirror.nekoware.se
I have also put up some other miscellaneous SGI info and files I had.
...

http://se.mirror.nekoware.se/ didn't work for me but http://se.mirror.nekoware.net/ did.

-Darkstar

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My SGI collection, in chronological order:
:Indy: :Indigo2: :Indigo2IMP: :Indy: :Octane: :Indigo: :O2000: :O2: :O2: :Octane2:
Current tasks: Find Indigo Keyboard+Mouse, find Octane PCI cardcage, find O2k Hardware

Other systems from my collection:
IBM PReP 43P/120, HP 9000/712, DEC VAXstation 4000 model 60, HP Envizex II, DEC AlphaStation 200, Amiga 2000, HP NetServer LH4r, Commodore 64, Commodore 128, Atari 512ST, Sun SPARCengine CP1500, Sun SPARCengine Ultra AXi
My suggestions:

Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu
Kumo no mukou, yakusoku no basho
Azumanga Daioh
Last Exile

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My SGI collection, in chronological order:
:Indy: :Indigo2: :Indigo2IMP: :Indy: :Octane: :Indigo: :O2000: :O2: :O2: :Octane2:
Current tasks: Find Indigo Keyboard+Mouse, find Octane PCI cardcage, find O2k Hardware

Other systems from my collection:
IBM PReP 43P/120, HP 9000/712, DEC VAXstation 4000 model 60, HP Envizex II, DEC AlphaStation 200, Amiga 2000, HP NetServer LH4r, Commodore 64, Commodore 128, Atari 512ST, Sun SPARCengine CP1500, Sun SPARCengine Ultra AXi
As someone who has learned japanese for some time now, I can say this:
- pronounciation is really simple (at least for me, with German as primary language). You just pronounce what is written. The only difficult thing is the "r" sound but you'll handle that in no time.
- Compared to other asian languages (chinese, korean) there's no tonal language and no intonation used, at least if you're not aiming to rival native speakers (slight intonational changes occur but they can generally be ignored by a beginner)
- the grammar is actually pretty easy (only 2 irregular verbs) and systematic. However, since there are for example only 2 times (past and present/future) you have to memorize a lot of simple sentence structures to express things that happen relative to each other in time. These structures easy in themselves but there's an awful lot of them
- "keigo". sooner or later you'll encounter the "honorative language". This is pure evil, i.e. more (and irregular) verb forms to learn, new grammatical structures, and so on. the good thing is that you can get around in japan quite easy without speaking it. the bad thing is that you have to recognize and understand it, so you'll have to learn it anyway ;-)
- kanji. Not so much a problem nowadays, with small pocket dictionaries that tell you the meaning of the kanji if you draw it on the display. But with all the different readings and special readings for some compounds it can get very stressful to memorize them. Try to learn about 20 kanji (with like 4-6 compound words each) every week, practising the ones that came earlier so that you don't forget them.
- particles. Most of the time these are quite logical grammatical helper words, but here, too, the exceptions can be annoying. for example you use "ni" to specify the destination of a movement verb, and "de" to specify the location of an action taking place. but for example the verb "to live in" also takes the "ni" particle even though it does specify a place and not a movement. And that's just one of the easier ones... ;-)

Apart from that I think that japanese is a very nice language to learn, and the effect of watching a japanese movie or anime and understanding whole sentences is very rewarding :-)

ganbatte kudasai!

-Darkstar

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My SGI collection, in chronological order:
:Indy: :Indigo2: :Indigo2IMP: :Indy: :Octane: :Indigo: :O2000: :O2: :O2: :O2: :O2000:
Current tasks: Find Indigo Keyboard+Mouse, find Octane PCI cardcage, find O2k Hardware

Other systems from my collection:
IBM PReP 43P/120, HP 9000/712, DEC VAXstation 4000 model 60, HP Envizex II, DEC AlphaStation 200, Amiga 2000, HP NetServer LH4r, Commodore 64, Commodore 128, Atari 512ST, Sun SPARCengine CP1500, Sun SPARCengine Ultra AXi
...in or around Kyoto that sell old (vintage) computers? It'll be some time until I get to Akiba so I thought I could maybe find something here. But the shops I found only sell used consoles and games, which is great too (I'm thinking of getting a PC-FX and a NeoGeo :D ) but I'd rather find some Sharp/Fujitsu computer goodness...

Any ideas/hints?

-Darkstar

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My SGI collection, in chronological order:
:Indy: :Indigo2: :Indigo2IMP: :Indy: :Octane: :Indigo: :O2000: :O2: :O2: :Octane2:
Current tasks: Find Indigo Keyboard+Mouse, find Octane PCI cardcage, find O2k Hardware

Other systems from my collection:
IBM PReP 43P/120, HP 9000/712, DEC VAXstation 4000 model 60, HP Envizex II, DEC AlphaStation 200, Amiga 2000, HP NetServer LH4r, Commodore 64, Commodore 128, Atari 512ST, Sun SPARCengine CP1500, Sun SPARCengine Ultra AXi
Well, the Neo Geo games are still pretty expensive over here (saw some for over 24000yen which is about 200euro) but they can be as cheap as 900yen (some crappy fighting game... in fact it seems that this system has *only* fighting games, at least that's all I see here...)

I wouldn't mind getting an X68000, X1, FmTowns or MSX... but so far I still haven't found any of them. Shipping them will also be a pain in the butt I guess... I heard that for example X68000 Systems use some rare video refresh rate which only very few monitors can handle, so I'd have to ship a CRT around as well *sigh*

-Darkstar

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My SGI collection, in chronological order:
:Indy: :Indigo2: :Indigo2IMP: :Indy: :Octane: :Indigo: :O2000: :O2: :O2: :Octane2:
Current tasks: Find Indigo Keyboard+Mouse, find Octane PCI cardcage, find O2k Hardware

Other systems from my collection:
IBM PReP 43P/120, HP 9000/712, DEC VAXstation 4000 model 60, HP Envizex II, DEC AlphaStation 200, Amiga 2000, HP NetServer LH4r, Commodore 64, Commodore 128, Atari 512ST, Sun SPARCengine CP1500, Sun SPARCengine Ultra AXi
It looks less impressive than during the annual Anime Fair though ;-)

Hope it was fun. I`m currently stuck in Kyoto, examinations are due next week.

-Darkstar

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My SGI collection, in chronological order:
:Indy: :Indigo2: :Indigo2IMP: :Indy: :Octane: :Indigo: :O2000: :O2: :O2: :Octane2:
Current tasks: Find Indigo Keyboard+Mouse, find Octane PCI cardcage, find O2k Hardware

Other systems from my collection:
IBM PReP 43P/120, HP 9000/712, DEC VAXstation 4000 model 60, HP Envizex II, DEC AlphaStation 200, Amiga 2000, HP NetServer LH4r, Commodore 64, Commodore 128, Atari 512ST, Sun SPARCengine CP1500, Sun SPARCengine Ultra AXi
Saved this baby from the dumpster. Don't know yet what I'll do with it.

My third Octane, and still no PCI cardcage :(

Code:
>> hinv -t
system ARC SGI-IP30 key 0
processor CPU MIPS-R12000 key 0
processor FPU MIPS-R12010FPC key 0
cache primary icache 32 Kbytes (block 2 lines, line 64 bytes)
cache primary dcache 32 Kbytes (block 2 lines, line 32 bytes)
cache secondary cache 2048 Kbytes (block 2 lines, line 128 bytes)
memory main 2176 Mbytes
adapter XTalk heart key 0
adapter PCI key 15
adapter multi function ioc3 key 0
controller network ef0 key 0
peripheral network ef0 ethernet (100/10 base-T) key 0
controller serial IP30 tty key 0
peripheral line key 0
controller serial IP30 tty key 1
peripheral line key 0
controller pointer pcms key 0
peripheral pointer key 0
adapter SCSI QLISP1040 key 0
controller disk SGI SEAGATE ST318404 key 1
peripheral disk unit 0
adapter SCSI QLISP1040 key 1
controller audio RAD Audio Processor key 0
controller display SGI-ODYSSEY key 0
>> hinv
System: IP30
Processor: 400 Mhz R12000, with FPU
Primary I-cache size: 32 Kbytes
Primary D-cache size: 32 Kbytes
Secondary cache size: 2 Mbytes
Memory size: 2176 Mbytes
Network: ef0 ethernet (100/10 base-T)
SCSI Disk: scsi(0)disk(1)
Audio: RAD Audio Processor
Graphics: ODYSSEY



...and now that I have the root password:

Code:
octane10(ttyd1):root:/> /usr/gfx/gfxinfo
Graphics board 0 is "ODYSSEY" graphics.
Managed (":0.0") 1280x1024
BUZZ version A.1
PB&J version 1
32MB memory
Banks: 2, CAS latency: 3
Monitor 0 type: Unknown
(Could not contact X server; thus, no XSGIvc information available)

octane10(ttyd1):root:/> hinv -v
1 400 MHZ IP30 Processor
Heart ASIC: Revision F
CPU: MIPS R12000 Processor Chip Revision: 3.5
FPU: MIPS R12010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 0.0
Main memory size: 2176 Mbytes
Xbow ASIC: Revision 1.4
Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes
Data cache size: 32 Kbytes
Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 2 Mbytes
Integral SCSI controller 0: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), single ended
Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0 (unit 1)
Integral SCSI controller 1: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), single ended
IOC3 serial port: tty1
IOC3 serial port: tty2
IOC3 parallel port: plp1
Graphics board: V6
Integral Fast Ethernet: ef0, version 1, pci 2
Iris Audio Processor: version RAD revision 12.0, number 1
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 4265, device 3) pci slot 2
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 4215, device 4128) pci slot 0
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 4215, device 4128) pci slot 1
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 4265, device 5) pci slot 3

-Darkstar

_________________
My SGI collection, in chronological order:
:Indy: :Indigo2: :Indigo2IMP: :Indy: :Octane: :Indigo: :O2000: :O2: :O2: :Octane2:
Current tasks: Find Indigo Keyboard+Mouse, find Octane PCI cardcage, find O2k Hardware

Other systems from my collection:
IBM PReP 43P/120, HP 9000/712, DEC VAXstation 4000 model 60, HP Envizex II, DEC AlphaStation 200, Amiga 2000, HP NetServer LH4r, Commodore 64, Commodore 128, Atari 512ST, Sun SPARCengine CP1500, Sun SPARCengine Ultra AXi